Re Bill's comment below:
> He was also one of the first to use
> black
> protagonists in mystery fiction. Check out ROOM
TO
> SWING,
> which won the "best novel" Edgar
Although Lacy wasn't black, he was married to a black woman
during the '40s and '50s, which gave him an insight to black
culture most white people didn't have.
There was a PBO sequel to ROOM TO SWING called MOMENT OF
UNTRUTH.
> IN BLACK AND
> WHITEY isn't
> quite as good but worth reading.
IN BLACK AND WHITEY was a procedural in which the villains
were white supremacists called WON, a sort of urban KKK. It
was the sequel to another novel featuring the same
African-American policeman called HARLEM UNDERGROUND in which
the hero went undercover to infiltrate a black terrorist
group similar to the Black Panthers.
JIM DOHERTY
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